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To: onedoug

Can you give me an example where science converged on a Scientific truth taught in the Torah?


121 posted on 12/26/2013 10:31:14 AM PST by DManA
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To: DManA

Principally, the Creation Event, and modern science’s recognition of the so called Big Bang, or better still, inflationary cosmology. Then, all the relativistic quantum theoretical stuff that gave rise to everything else.

But my personal favorite concerns the use in Leviticus XI, 18-19 of the Hebrew word “Tinshemet” (tuf, nun, shin, mem, tuf) representing a bird of some sort. Then the same word is used again in v29 to describe “the great lizard” or reptile.

That these two meanings were used in conjunction so long ago seems somewhat astounding given modern science’s current theoretical frameworks which link relationships twixt the Ornisthician dinosaurs and modern birds.

I certainly have my misgivings about Biblical license to plural marriage, idolatry regarding Umim and Thumin, and the casting out of those with certain skin conditions, etc. But those seem small things between God and me.

But Torah’s connection to the rise of modern science is indisputable. And with the recent news concerning a new genetic language previously hidden within the framework of DNA, I believe such connections ever serve to close that circuit with the Divine.


122 posted on 12/26/2013 4:51:25 PM PST by onedoug
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